Zuckerberg unveils «Meta Compute» initiative to secure infrastructure

Meta is serious about investing in data centers in the coming years. (Picture: generated)
The Meta CEO announced his new «top level» compute team on threads, saying «Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade.»

He also said they will expand to «hundreds of gigawatts,» «over time.»

— How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage, Zuckerberg continues.

There are lots of obstacles to build global infrastructure like this, and challenges in «operating our global datacenter fleet and network,» Zuckerberg says.

The team will be headed up by Meta’s head of global infrastructure Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, in close collaboration with newly hired Dina Powell McCormick.

Meta hasn’t released a frontier model since the Llama series in April, 2025, which saw lots of controversies. They have since formed a Superintelligence Lab from across the industry to develop the next generation of models. There is no timeline for when they’ll be ready, but the ambition is real, Zuckerberg says:

— [we want to] deliver personal superintelligence to billions of people around the world, he closes his message.

Read more: Zuck’s threads message, Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Insider.